Loughlin observes that this is suggestive of homosexuality on Ash's part, although his true nature is revealed when he attempts to kill Ripley with the pornographic magazine; an act which is both an echo of the way that the alien "facehugger" infests its victims, and a sexual symbol of phallic penetration and rape by ...
With his plans to recover a Xenomorph in ruins, Ash, apparently driven insane by the years he had spent drifting alone aboard Narcissus, planned to continue his journey with Ripley, with whom he imagined he had developed an intimate connection.
Ash : Ripley, for God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like this. It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made.
Unfortunately Ripley was carrying a Queen Alien embryo inside of her, which the company, Weyland Yutani, wanted to preserve to produce biological weapons. Ripley kills herself to avoid this. Centuries after the death of Ripley, scientists were able to clone her using DNA acquired from the incidents in Alien 3.
Ripley's nosebleed in Alien exemplifies a supposedly feminine loss of bodily function under high-pressure – blood that conveys her human mortality but also seems other. These dribbles are uncanny, a symbol of death that should be contained.
Ripley then had a short face-off with the creature in front of the shuttle, and with it blocking her way, she rushed to reactivate the cooling unit. However, despite the fact that she turned the cooling back on, Mother finalized the self destruct.
Ripley then started to feel sick and had shortness of breath; she thought it was a side effect from abruptly waking from hypersleep. Regardless, she then had Francis Aaron help her run a scan in the EEV and she then discovered she had been impregnated by a facehugger and had a Queen gestating inside her.
Once hatched in the prison, the creature begins to kill inmates and guards, but strangely refuses to kill her. After rallying the inmates and preparing the defense against the creature, Ripley discovers the embryo of an Alien Queen growing inside her, thus realizing why she had not been attacked.
When Ripley, by checking the main computer, discovers the real reason for the Nostromo's diversion, Ash assaults Ripley, attempting to kill her by forcing a rolled-up pornographic magazine down her throat. In the midst of their struggle, two of the surviving crew members, Parker and Lambert, arrive and rescue Ripley.
Below him appears to be one of the alien's many eggs, partially encompassing Brett's body. Fearing that Dallas will meet the same fate as Brett clearly has, Ripley uses her flamethrower to torch the resin, killing Dallas and sparing him the horror of being absorbed into a Xenomorph egg.
Robert Ripley's quote, "Never stop exploring, for the world is endlessly fascinating," encapsulates the essence of curiosity and wanderlust. Ripley, best known for his exploration of the odd and unusual, believed that the world holds an inexhaustible amount of wonders waiting to be discovered.
Scott ascribes a Freudian sexual conflict to the character of Ash, noting that as an android, Ash is not anatomically correct, and he vents his sexual frustration upon Ripley when he tries to force a rolled-up pornographic magazine (hint: phallic symbol) down her throat.
The original animation in the series made Ash much whiter and vaguer in features, much like a cartoon rather than an anime. As the series went on they made sure to animate Ash as being darker with perkier eyes and more Japanese features in his face.
The layer of reactive mist in Alien is probably some form of the aerosolized xenovirus, which may or may not have the same effect it does in Covenant but seems to serve as an intelligent barrier, protecting and alerting the eggs to intruders.
The alien-fighting warrant officer revealed her shaved head in the third instalment of the successful franchise, which had her stranded on a prison spaceship. “I think it brings out the faces and the vulnerability of these actors very much,” she said of her and her fellow cast mate's shorn locks.
He was killed by a lone Xenomorph that was born in the prison in 2179. After Ellen Ripley arrived at the facility, she and Clemens became close, eventually sleeping together. Clemens was later killed by the Xenomorph in the infirmary where he worked.
In Alien 3, Ripley gets infected with a Xenomorph embryo by a Facehugger and lands on a prison planet following the unceremonious deaths of Hicks and Newt.
Two possibilities immediately present themselves: She was infested with an embryo that was eventually meant to become a queen. It's possible the gestation time for that particular xenomorph form is longer, to allow for more complex brain development or the like. She was infested while she was still in hibernation.
This Alien is different from the ones in previous installments due to its host being quadrupedal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut). Initially a visual effects supervisor, Woodruff decided to take the role of the creature after his company, Amalgamated Dynamics, was hired by Fox.
Following the destruction of the original Xenomorph Hive and the derelict on Acheron, and the death of the Runner on Fiorina "Fury" 161, Ellen Ripley committed sacrificial suicide to destroy the last known Xenomorph specimen in existence — the embryonic Queen developing inside her.
Ripley suspects that she has a Chestburster inside and has it confirms it, when 85 gives her an x-ray. Even when Ripley confronts the Xenomorph, it won't kill her because it knows she is carrying a Queen. X-Ray of Ripley showing the Queen Chestburster.
Ripley eventually discovers that Mother was programmed to betray the safety of the crew to preserve the alien that symbolizes phallic power through violent superiority.
